| Dear Colleagues, We want to make you aware of a new publicly available, anechoic, multidirectional, high-fidelity speech corpus that we have made for use in speech perception experiments. The corpus consists of multiple speech materials, including digits, unscripted narratives, and the Bamford-Kowal-Bench (BKB) sentences lists, uttered by 30 speakers of American English. One novelty of the corpus is the multidirectional aspect, which enables researchers to use speech signals recorded from different angles around a talker’s head to produce speech stimuli (e.g., multi-talker babble) that incorporate differing head orientations of talkers in a scene. The corpus was specifically designed to be useful for speech perception experiments, but can also be useful for studies of speech acoustics (e.g. speech directivity). We hope it will be useful to the community. Details of the corpus have recently been published: Miller et al (2025). An anechoic, high-fidelity, multidirectional speech corpus. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (https://pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/2024_JSLHR-24-00296, pdf available here) The corpus itself is available on OSF: https://osf.io/w4h9f/ We want to acknowledge the National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders (USA) that supported this project. Feel free to reach out to me or any member of the research team if you have any questions about the corpus. All the best, Brian Brian B. Monson, PhD Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies Department of Speech and Hearing Science | College of Applied Health Sciences Department of Biomedical and Translational Sciences | Carle Illinois College of Medicine Stephens Family Clinical Research Institute | Carle Foundation Hospital Neuroscience Program University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 901 S Sixth St, Rm 223 Champaign, IL 61820 217-300-6212 | monson@xxxxxxxxxxxx anexlabshs.web.illinois.edu |
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